Gørill Haugan
Professor Haugan is supervising PhD- and master-projects focusing on different aspects of nursing and global health, collecting data in Norway as well as in Nepal and Uganda. Furthermore, she is supervising assistant professors in achieving competence as associate professor at Nord University. Haugan is widely published internationally, with about 330 publications in the field of nursing and health promotion among different populations such as older people, long-term intensive care patients, adolescents and postnatal women, as well as nursing and midwifery students and health professionals. She is the main editor of three different scientific anthologies focusing on health promotion in health care. In particular, she has investigated the salutogenic influence of nurse-patient interaction, self-transcendence, hope, meaning-in-life, sense of coherence, joy-of-life and spirituality on individual's well-being and quality of life, as well as developed and validated several measurement models central to nursing and health care. Haugan leads several research projects in various fields including various populations, and evaluates research proposals for funding in Norway and other countries. She is part of several research groups and collaborates with researchers in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey, Singapore, Uganda, Nepal, Malta, Poland, Canada and USA.
Haugan teach and supervise students at all levels on different topics, such as research methods, health promotion, nurse-patient interaction, spiritual care, among others.
